Her world was turned to ashes and soot, now she's out to return the favor. One knife to the heart at a time. "I am not a sword arm. I am not a Lady. I am a weapon." -- Heart of Cinders
They’ve been waiting their entire lives to land on their new planet, they have to survive two months in space first. But it isn’t just strange space phenomenon that want them dead this time. Zellendine and Troylus have to navigate the uncomfortable new reality of having the entire ship awake at once, and more people’s eyes are turning silver. Every pair of silver eyes poses a new threat and a new source of rage toward Zellendine. Two months stretches into a treacherous eternity after a voyage that took a millennia. Will everyone survive the descent to their new home planet?
Cinder’s whole world is held together and supported by threads no stronger than glass. Killing is the one thing she excels at. But it’s hard to hit her mark when she’s not sure who to kill first. Returning to her brother without King Tristan’s head wasn’t the plan. Yet that’s exactly what Cinder does. Worse, she asks him to unite with Tristan’s forces to fight for the kingdom. Her brother is an accomplished murderer, what will he do when she admits to lending her blade to Tristan’s cause? Will she become the next target for assassination? Will all the glass threads shatter?
Landing on the planet was supposed to bring them closer to a new dawn together, but they've never been further apart. Troylus and Zellendine struggle to finish what they must before they can finally resettle together. But that's no small feat when they're trapped on opposite sides of a mountain range with no way of communicating with each other. Meanwhile, a threat lurks in their new world. It's a threat that they don't understand...even though they've met it before. Back on the ship that's still in orbit, Briar continues to rage with a mind clouded by silver wrath. Will Briar be able to overcome his fury, and will Troylus and Zellendine survive to see their new aurora, or will it all be shattered?
How do you go to sleep, if you're not sure you're going to wake up? While most of the population of the Spinning Wheel, a Chapter colonization ship, sleeps in their cryo bays, Zellendine and Troylus go through the motions of their shift awake, keeping the ship going. But the first tendrils of the Grimm star, the star that will be their sun on their new planet, are shining in the windows, and with the light comes more changes than they are prepared for. First, a baby is born dead from one of the mechanical wombs on board with no warning that something is wrong. Second, some of the people in the next shift, waking up from their cryo bay for the hand off period on the ship, are stuck in deep, steady REM sleep. And third, while Troylus is on a starwalk to close the shields over the windows because a strange anomaly is detected in front of the ship, the anomaly… attacks. He doesn’t have a better description for it. And he doesn’t have any way to explain what he does in response to save Zellendine on the other side of the window, watching on in horror. Only one more period in cryo before they are scheduled to arrive on their long awaited new planet, but can they even survive until they are supposed to go to sleep again? And if they do, will they ever wake up?
Ariella is gifted by the gods of her underwater world, but gifts come with a cost. And when strangers with magic from the stars themselves arrive, Ariella may be called upon to pay it. A novella in The Grimm Star Universe.
Fake dating, real sparks. Like the romance channel popular at the holidays that rhymes with ballpark, but LGBTQIA. Olivia is tired of having few friends, too many responsibilities in her family’s pizza restaurant, worrying about her mother’s cancer, being second fiddle to her med student brother, and being very unlucky in love. Her ex-girlfriend finds a new focus for her affection, and Olivia decides the safe, kind, easy option for a rebound to make her feel better is the good looking, although kind of boring, Omar. She’s sure it would all be easier if she was a pansexual girl not battling crippling social anxiety, but she keeps trying through it. Campbell, Omar’s cousin, is new in town and happens to be a trans man. She hopes that hiring Campbell will win her points with Omar. What she doesn’t expect is to find herself relying on Campbell to help her navigate getting friends, pretend to date her so she can win Omar, and help her prepare for a pizza competition that could be the difference between her losing the restaurant and ensuring she gets everything she’s been working for. Even more surprising, instead of a silly rebound, if she can get beyond her own fears and is willing to risk her chance at the competition she’s wants to win so badly, she might find everything she’s been looking for.
Cinder’s whole world is held together and supported by threads no stronger than glass. Killing is the one thing she excels at. But it’s hard to hit her mark when she’s not sure who to kill first. Returning to her brother without King Tristan’s head wasn’t the plan. Yet that’s exactly what Cinder does. Worse, she asks him to unite with Tristan’s forces to fight for the kingdom. Her brother is an accomplished murderer, what will he do when she admits to lending her blade to Tristan’s cause? Will she become the next target for assassination? Will all the glass threads shatter?
As the frigid darkness of war descends upon Onyx, Lady Cinder’s nights are filled with King Tristan’s warm glow. No matter how hard she tries to maintain the smooth exterior of the trained assassin that she is, deep down Cinder knows that she wants to keep Tristan by her side forever. And she'll kill to do it. But what will happen to her moon-soaked moments in the arms of the King if Brix lets it slip that Cinder originally joined Onyx’s search for a future queen with the intention of murdering the King? While her brother’s closest, most brutal confidant, stews in a prison cell in the bowels of Breakwater’s castle, Cinder must recover from wounds by his hands. She’s driven to find Brix’s cell, make him pay for the havoc he wreaked, slowly wrench answers from him about her own brother’s allegiances, and then silence him forever before he burns Tristan’s love for her to the ground. Sometimes dark actions are required to protect dark hearts.
Landing on the planet was supposed to bring them closer to a new dawn together, but they've never been further apart. Troylus and Zellendine struggle to finish what they must before they can finally resettle together. But that's no small feat when they're trapped on opposite sides of a mountain range with no way of communicating with each other. Meanwhile, a threat lurks in their new world. It's a threat that they don't understand...even though they've met it before. Back on the ship that's still in orbit, Briar continues to rage with a mind clouded by silver wrath. Will Briar be able to overcome his fury, and will Troylus and Zellendine survive to see their new aurora, or will it all be shattered?
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: COLD CASE REVENGE (A Pacific Northwest K-9 novel) by Jessica R. Patch When Nick Rossi’s three-year-old daughter disappears, it’s up to Special Agent Ruby Orton and her K-9 to find her. But once they locate the child, it’s an eerie echo of a decades-old case involving Nick’s sister. And someone’s killing to keep the past a secret… MOUNTAIN ABDUCTION RESCUE (A Crisis Rescue Team novel) by Darlene L. Turner When her son is kidnapped by a serial arsonist out for revenge, park warden Hazel Hoyt must team up with firefighter Mitchell Booth to track down her missing child. But with danger closing in on all sides, can they survive long enough to save her son? WYOMING RANCH AMBUSH by Sommer Smith Evie Langford’s move to Wyoming is meant to be a fresh start…until her ex-boyfriend’s death makes her the target of a kingpin. Accused of having money stolen from the crime boss, Evie needs cowboy Beau Thorpe’s protection before she pays for a crime she didn’t commit. For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense September 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2
This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Darlene Lovasik, RN, MN, CCRN, CNRN, will feature such article topics as: Evaluation and Work-up for Transplant; Basic Immunology; Pharmacology; Liver, Pancreas, Kidney Transplants; Living Donor Kideny, Liver Transplants; Heart, Lung, Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplants; Complications After Transplant ; Patient Education; Psychosocial Concerns; Ethical Issue; Financial/Operational Considerations; Organ Donation.
Little Secrets By: Darlene J. Forbes “Does anyone in your family die of natural causes?” Nancy was beginning to think no, only tragically. Sadly, Nancy saw many loved ones pass away over the years, but the death of her longtime best friend is what finally led her to tell this story. Little Secrets is a book about Nancy and Sally, the stories from their youth, and the trials they have faced through the years. As long as they lived, they would keep each other’s secrets. Now, the secrets come to light: secrets of adultery, abuse, alcoholism, bigotry, and survival. A book as funny as it is heart-wrenching, Little Secrets offers a glimpse into the bonds that women share, reminding us that friendship and strength can survive under the toughest circumstances, even after death.
Midnight struck, the clock ran down, and Tristan knows who Cinder really is. The last war killed her parents, and this war ripped away the man she loves. Now, she returns herself to the shadows, her life spared only by her reputation as a battle-tested hero. If there were time to feel, Cinder would undoubtedly drown in grief over lost lives and love, but there is no room for mourning when pinched between the dual threats of the Corvids and her very own brother, Duke Ash. Tristan can’t stand the sight of Cinder after finding out that she originally meant to assassinate him. But he also can’t look away from her. Amidst a perfect storm of kingdom-ending perils, Cinder and Tristan are forced to shove their feelings aside and fight as one to save the orphans of Shield House. Can they swallow their feelings long enough to prevent the children from becoming the next tragic casualties of this war? And if they can save the kids, will they have any time left to try and save themselves?
Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke ground - pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black Women's Studies. Hailed by Eric Foner of Columbia University (for a Lingua Franca survey) as "one of those publishing events which changes the way we look at a field," it simultaneously filled a void in the literature and sparked new research and concepts regarding African American women in history. Since the first edition was published, a new generation of American black women has flourished, demanding this landmark reference be brought up to date. Women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Mosley-Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge have become household names for their remarkable contributions to sports, politics, academia, and business. In three magnificent volumes, Black Women in America, Second Edition celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and covers the new research the first edition helped to generate. Features: * Includes more than 150 new entries, plus revisions and updates to all previous entries * Contains 500 illustrations, many published here for the first times * Includes over 335 biographies, many newly prepared for this publication * Offers sidebars on interesting aspects of the history and culture of black women * Provides a bibliography for each entry, plus a major bibliographical essay * Features a chronology and a comprehensive index For a complete listing of contents, visit www.oup.com/us/bwia
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